About

Gender

Male


Location

Flushing, MI


About Me:

Embedded Systems Engineer & University Student


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I'm looking at developing / helping with the creation of autopilot firmware that provides for automated take-off, landing, and flight control to GPS waypoints and other tasks. Just spent a few hundred to order the materials to build my first quadcopter


Hometown:

Flushing, MI


Activity Feed

Andrew Robinson commented on Jordi Muñoz's blog post APM Oilpan Rev. H, Version 1.0 now in production!
"I can vouch for this... atmel has been behind when it comes to availability for a long time now. Economic downturn and the such and they are trying to avoid the boom-bust nature of the economy. Works for them, sucks for us.

I use the data flash…"
Sep 20, 2010
Andrew Robinson commented on Jordi Muñoz's blog post APM Oilpan Rev. H, Version 1.0 now in production!
"Congratulations Jordi on getting this new version together! Doing things in small quantities is a PITA, I've learned from working with a smaller manufacturing operation which deals in lower quantities that short run production just sucks. Component…"
Sep 17, 2010
Andrew Robinson replied to Adrian Jansen's discussion Temperature effects on electronics
"I know well of shielding. I had a gas sensor PCB board from another manufacturer that would dual purpose as an excellent close range cellular signal strength indicator and other sensors with precision heaters required to operate within spec for…"
Aug 2, 2010
Andrew Robinson replied to James Hall's discussion Design and make your own PCB
"Express PCB, Sunstone Circuits, BatchPCB. They all are approximately equal on quality. I use Sunstone when I need it fast and BatchPCB if it's something I'm not too worried about.

Home etching boards is great for people who do not value their time…"
Aug 2, 2010
Andrew Robinson commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Announcing ArduCopter, the merger of the ArduPilot and AeroQuad projects!
"Jani - Just curious, what sort of downfalls are you running into with implementing I2C motor control?

Also... one I2C device could easily freeze up and hold the whole bus low, thus killing all other devices. It really is an all or nothing type of…"
Jul 31, 2010
Andrew Robinson commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduPlane home page
"Hey, I see that this and the mediatek GPS receiver are both out of stock in your store. I'm eager to purchase this wonderful design! Any ETA on more boards / gps?"
Jul 11, 2010